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- August 10th, 2017, 1:41 pm#534509
ballcoach's statement that LU is going to hire one of the Top 5 FBS Coaches in the Country got me to thinking about all the other wild and crazy stories I've heard in my decades long familiarity with LU/TRBC. I'll post some but there has to be others. True. Not True. Almosts. Whatever. Let's hear some stories

In no order:1. LU was the early leader in the Tim Tebow sweepstakes's and had actually verballed before Florida got involved 2. Until Michigan did some shady under the table things Chris Weber was going to be a Flame 3. Lou Holtz was going to be LU's head coach with the understanding that his son Skip would take over after a few years4. Pete Maravich was going to be LU's basketball coach5 LU was thisclose to playing Alabama in 2001 ( this is something that is true)

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- August 10th, 2017, 7:32 pm#534526
The one big one that I always heard was that John Wooden, who was a friend of Doc's, was going to come out of retirement and be a sort of co-HC/coach emeritus for a few years and mentor Jeff Meyer, who would later resume the HC duties. I don't believe it was ever close to happening.

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ATrain wrote:The Spirit Rock is set on fire every so often to get rid of the layers of paint on it.

Years ago, I was walking back from a basketball game in the dark, and I saw this big ball of flames up ahead and noticed it was the Spirit Rock on fire. At first, I admired such a creative idea; that is, until I heard the siren on an LUPD cruiser coming to the rescue.

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- August 11th, 2017, 1:55 am#534539
1. Playboy ranking Liberty in the top 25 with the hottest girls 2. James Lang committed to Liberty before entering the NBA draft3. Chris Weber was all Liberty before Michigan coming into the picture4. Liberty being in Tebow's top 5

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ATrain wrote:The most common one when I was a student: the top two floors of DeMoss were never finished due to the building being unable to handle the weight.

The Spirit Rock is set on fire every so often to get rid of the layers of paint on it.

And of course...Beware the Black Suburban!

The DeMoss tale had some truth to it. Part way through construction Jerry decided he wanted the entire building brick, not just the front. So it took some refiguring. More likely there was a shortage of funds

The year was 2003. I lived in the circle. They had not yet opened the vehicle exit on the circle to 460 so the only way out was the main entrance where the guard shack was with a fine LUPD officer standing watch to make sure no unauthorized students left campus.

Anyways I was a freshman. My classes were mindless at that point so a couple guys in my hall and I decided one of us would park our car in the wal mart parking lot earlier in the evening. We would walk back to campus and then cut through the woods after curfew check to get to the car so we could hit up waffle house. I believe this was when I still smoked so it was an easy way for us to get out. Have some crappy food and smoke cigarettes. So dumb looking back but we thought it was a solid plan.

Anyways we walked through those ravine woods flashlights in hand when we stumbled into a mattress with used condoms tossed around. It was the most disgusting, saddest thing I had ever seen at that point in my life.

So there is the legend. I'm sure you guys enjoyed it greatly. Now you all will judge me for the sinner I was my freshmen year of college.

And no. I never went out there with a lady friend to use that mattress. I had a little more class than that.

The year was 2003. I lived in the circle. They had not yet opened the vehicle exit on the circle to 460 so the only way out was the main entrance where the guard shack was with a fine LUPD officer standing watch to make sure no unauthorized students left campus.

Anyways I was a freshman. My classes were mindless at that point so a couple guys in my hall and I decided one of us would park our car in the wal mart parking lot earlier in the evening. We would walk back to campus and then cut through the woods after curfew check to get to the car so we could hit up waffle house. I believe this was when I still smoked so it was an easy way for us to get out. Have some crappy food and smoke cigarettes. So dumb looking back but we thought it was a solid plan.

Anyways we walked through those ravine woods flashlights in hand when we stumbled into a mattress with used condoms tossed around. It was the most disgusting, saddest thing I had ever seen at that point in my life.

So there is the legend. I'm sure you guys enjoyed it greatly. Now you all will judge me for the sinner I was my freshmen year of college.

And no. I never went out there with a lady friend to use that mattress. I had a little more class than that.

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- August 15th, 2017, 12:00 pm#534748
I know I heard that Jerry Jr. was bidding on what is now, Trump Wineries. Not sure if there is truth to that or not.

Also, slightly off-topic, someone mentioned the guard shack. So, interesting story. When my Dad was at LU (late 80's), there was a black-out on the east coast that effected all of campus. Back then, the guard shack wasn't made out of brick. He, and about a dozen or so other guys, moved the guard shack, with the guard in it.

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Cider Jim wrote:VaGolf, please double check that story with your dad. I'd love to know how they moved a brick building.

Oh, I have to double check. The guard shack was obviously not brick when this happened but the story was one of the staples of my childhood. He was roommates with my uncle too, who also was in on the moving of the guard shack.

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Cider Jim wrote:VaGolf, please double check that story with your dad. I'd love to know how they moved a brick building.

Oh, I have to double check. The guard shack was obviously not brick when this happened but the story was one of the staples of my childhood. He was roommates with my uncle too, who also was in on the moving of the guard shack.

Either your dad was at LU FAR earlier than you thought, or the story is just another myth.

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- August 18th, 2017, 11:21 am#534983
One of my teachers at LCA told us the story of how, when she was LU, going to movies were banned and they would have people out in the parking lots of movie theaters looking for LU stickers. Additionally, when students were put up in hotels due to lack of dorm space, when asked where they lived the students in hotels replied "I'm not at Liberty to say."

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Sly Fox wrote:That was my era, Atrain. We used to drive to Altavista to avoid getting caught. After awhile, the RAs just quit checking the Fort and the traveling was over.

Yeah, in my era, the RAs were rumored to hang around the local colleges and other places to catch people drinking alcohol at parties. Although no one ever mentioned going out to FarmVille, home of Longwood and Hampden-Sydney.

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- August 21st, 2017, 12:25 pm#535059
The RAs used to go to the parking lots of movie theaters in the '80s and place reps on the windshields of cars that had LU stickers on them. I only once remember seeing RAs in the parking lots and as soon aas students saw what was going on as the crowd fille dup at the exits, the theater management came to intervene. This was around the time the school implemented the fine system for reps. Prior to that they weren't taken seriously at all. The guys across the hall from me my freshmen year made a reps tree at Christmas that kept getting filled in all spring.

BJWilliams wrote:There were usually a couple cars rocking in the pit by the quads and you could see a few fogged windows if you had to park near the edge at curfew time

Not stalking...you see a lot of things you wish you could unsee at or after curfew time...especially walking up the circle after late night at the computer lab because you couldn't get a ride back to your dorm or have to park all the way by 460 because all the spaces near your building are taken

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